Soperama...what was I thinking?

I have to start up front by saying that every time I say "Soperama" out loud I laugh. It's just so over the top it just cracks me up. But really as an independent author who is self publishing his own books you have to be a little over the top, because there is just so many people doing exactly the same thing, self-publishing, that you find any way of establishing yourself over the sea of books constantly coming out. "Soperama" in concept seemed like a good idea, I have written three books, I was going to give one a away free each day for three days. I've written about free books before, and as I stated there, I consider "free" books to be a very good advertisement, because it puts books in peoples hands, and if your any good at all those same people are going to seek out your other books, and tell people that they liked your books. At least that's what you hope happens. So with that in mind I set out on my three day "Sopereama" set of free days. What I didn't take into account was how much effort goes into each of those three days. You have to Tweet, you have to Facebook, You have to "YouTube", and you have to do "Events" on Goodreads, all of which takes time, effort, and runs the risk of making you an irritation to your followers at each of the sites. The Free days work individually, because you can put all that effort into them, but when you try to do it over multiple books on successive days, you just burn people out on hearing your name and seeing your messages and Tweets. So when you get to the new book that you were trying to promote in the first place, well... you've overstayed your promotional welcome, and your "free" sales suffer. OK, message received, we live, we learn, and then we move forward, hopefully a little smarter for our pain. Then we blog and tell others to learn from our mistakes. So your takeaway from this should be "Free Days" should be just that, single days, not successive days, not multiple books, just one book on one day. That way both you and your potential consumers can concentrate on that single book, and all be happier because you are. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.